Incorporation of recent waking-life experiences in dreams correlates with frontal theta activity in REM sleep
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience May 29, 2018 Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub, Elaine Van Rijn, M. Gareth Gaskell et al. 53 citations
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and its main oscillatory feature, frontal theta, have been related to the processing of recent emotional memories. As memories constitute much of the source material for our dreams, we explored the link between REM frontal theta and the memory sources of dreaming, so as to elucidate the brain activities behind the formation of dream content. Twenty participants...